Listening to “comfort music” can contribute to feeling cozy and relaxed. Baroque classical music fulfills that role for some people. For Hungarian artist Judit Reigl, the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) were a source of artistic inspiration. She transformed the musical notes into concrete visual signs, as in Art of the Fugue.

Reigl declared, “My whole body is involved in my work. . . It’s with gestures that I write in the space given through rhythm, through beats, beats.” Reigl viewed the painter’s body as a mechanism to translate vibrations and movement into a physical representation on the canvas.

Image Description: An abstract painting of a white canvas with multiple horizontal rows of irregular, textured brown shapes. Their arrangement appears ordered, contributing to a rhythmic visual pattern.